Re: worst dialog ever

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 7/26/05, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> On 7/26/05, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> > Grr. I've hated the 'these file types are mismatched' 'security'dialog
> > for a long time, because it is totally uninformative, gives a lot of
> > false positives, and makes it totally unclear how one is supposed to
> > recover from the error. I've finally found a case where it actually
> > *forces* me to use the terminal, though, which makes me hate it even
> > more.
> >
> > Situation:
> > * docbook extension is .xml
> > * install attached 'docbook.xml' in /usr/share/mime/packages/, run
> > 'update-mime-database /usr/share/mime/', kill gnome-vfs-daemon, and
> > restart nautilus.
> > * drop test.xml into, say, ~/Desktop/
> > * right click on properties of test.xml, note that (pleasurably) your
> > file is shown to be docbook, though you likely don't have any
> > docbook-specific handlers.
> > * double-click on the file.
> > * get the error message from hell, even though the file (1) has the
> > correct extension and (2) is properly sniffed by the properties
> > dialog.
> >
> > So... can we please finally kill this dialog? :) At the very least, it
> > has to be fixed to be able to accept that some extensions can be
> > multiple types of file.
> >
> > Luis (and yes, I'll add these details to the bug, but it has been
> > getting ignored a long time.)
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310082

Bah. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309862

Luis